l-Shabab also caused alarm in February 2016 when it claimed responsibility for the bombing of an airliner that made an emergency landing with a gaping hole in the fuselage shortly after taking off from Mogadishu.

The proclamation A nation without Illegal Expatriates has put a grace period states that runaway workers, residents with expired work permits, over-stayers of Umrah and Hajj, among others, are illegals.

The international community and shipping firms should intensify patrols along the Somalia coastline to eliminate piracy that is slowly crawling back after a five year lull, a senior UN official has said.

The move is another example of the acceleration of U.S. efforts to help combat violent extremism across the globe, a second military official said. The goal of the operation is to build partner capacity while helping to improve the logistics of local forces battling the military group al-Shabab.

The EU Delegation calls upon the authorities of Puntland and the Federal Government of Somalia to instate a moratorium on the death penalty and to ensure that civilians are tried before civilian courts.

The assistance was provided within RAF's humanitarian efforts to help and rescue Ethiopians in drought-affected areas, whose number exceeds 6 million. It also came in response to the humanitarian appeal made by the Ethiopian government to humanitarian institutions to quickly rescue those affected…

Somalia's ambassador to the United States says his embassy has learned that U.S. immigration officers plan to deport about 4,000 Somali nationals.
Ahmed Isse Awad is the Somali ambassador to the U.S. He spoke to the Voice of America's Somali service on Saturday.

Kenya's economy faces further challenges from a slowdown in the growth of loans to businesses and individual borrowers as banks tighten lending due to risk aversion and a law that enforces a ceiling on borrowing costs. Private-sector credit growth slumped to 4 percent in February, according to the…

VOA reports that Abdikarim Salah "Aw Koombe" was left behind on the freighter by his fellow piratesand has not been seen since. Two of the attackers reportedly escaped and returned to their home village, where they told local residents that Aw Koombe and two others had not made it off the ship.…

Dubai (HOL) - The President of International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Dr. Olumuyiwa Benard Aliu has denied reports that the control of Somali airspace will be transferred to neighbouring countries as widely reported in local media.

April 11, 2017: The African Freedom of Expression Exchange (AFEX) joins its member, the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) to strongly condemn the sentencing of independent journalist, Abdimalik Muse Oldon to two years in prison by the Marodi Jeeh Regional Court in Somaliland's capital…